Rome to Florence road trip
≈ 350 km · ~5 h driving · ideal in 7 days · 5 stops
The A1 does Rome–Florence in three hours; this version takes five days and earns every one of them, winding through Umbrian cliff towns and Tuscany's wine country instead.
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The route at a glance
- Rome — 1 night
- Orvieto — 1 night
- Montepulciano — 1 night
- Siena — 1 night
- Florence — 2 nights
The stops
- 1
Rome
One last espresso in Trastevere before escaping the ring road north into Lazio's hills.
- 2
Orvieto
A cathedral facade like a gold mosaic cliff, and an Etruscan cave network under the whole town.
- 3
Montepulciano
Vino Nobile cellars burrow beneath Renaissance palazzi; the Val d'Orcia photo stops (Pienza, San Quirico) are twenty minutes away.
- 4
Siena
Il Campo at dusk, when the day-trippers leave, is the best piazza moment in Italy.
- 5
Florence
Book the Uffizi and Accademia ahead, then climb to San Miniato for the view the postcards can't fit.
Good to know
Both city centres are ZTL (restricted-traffic) zones — book hotels with parking outside them or drop the car at ring parkings. April–June and September–October are ideal; August is hot and crowded. A standard licence covers everything; the hill towns just need nerve for narrow lanes.
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